Gabrielle Reyes

Turkey's Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally withdrew Turkey on Thursday from the Istanbul Convention, an international treaty aimed at reducing domestic violence against women.

A wildfire consumed an entire village in the Canadian province of British Columbia on Thursday after the small town recorded Canada's highest-ever temperature of 121.2º Fahrenheit earlier this week, the Vancouver Sun reported on Friday.

Hong Kong police sealed off the city's Victoria Park on Thursday citing alleged calls online for unauthorized assemblies in the recreation area, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) reported.

A coalition of Indian Sikh leaders demanded the Indian federal territory of Jammu and Kashmir enact laws against "love jihad," or the alleged forced conversion of non-Muslim women to Islam by Muslim men, this week after unconfirmed reports emerged that Muslim men had "forced" Sikh women to

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Five Asian nations account for 80 percent of the world's newly planned coal power stations, according to a report published by the non-profit climate research think tank Carbon Tracker on Wednesday.

Abu Dhabi will ban people unvaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus from most public places starting August 20, the city's government media office announced Monday.

Hong Kong police arrested an ex-journalist of the now-defunct Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily on Sunday as he attempted to fly out of the city, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported Monday.

Nigeria's environmental agency said on Sunday it has the power to prosecute mosques and churches that "refuse to abide" by national guidelines limiting public noise pollution caused by unregulated loudspeakers, Nigeria'sDaily Trust newspaper reportedMonday.

A Hong Kong LGBT film festival pulled a Taiwanese documentary from its lineup in recent days after Hong Kong government authorities censored parts of the feature, local news outlet Coconuts Hong Kong reported on Monday.

Child soldiers "between the ages of 12 and 14" perpetrated a massacre in Burkina Faso this month that killed over 130 people, Burkina Faso's government said on Thursday.

Police in the Indian city of Mumbai recently shut down a group of fraudulent Chinese coronavirus vaccine clinics for distributing fake vaccines and counterfeit certificates to over 2,053 paying clients, the Times of India reported on Thursday.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei received his first dose of "CovIran Barekat," a Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate allegedly produced by Iranian scientists, in a ceremony broadcast live on Iranian state television on Friday, Iran's state-run PressTV reported.

Dozens of Muslim-majority countries worldwide have cooperated with Chinese government authorities in recent years to deport ethnic Uyghurs back to China, according to a new report published by the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs and the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) on Thursday.

Russian "support" is "requested now more than ever" in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Wednesday.

Addis Ababa police confirmed on Tuesday that a U.S. citizenworking as an election observer in Ethiopia was found dead in the capital city on Tuesday,Kenya's EastAfrican newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The government of Pakistan's Punjab province announced this month it will cut off the cellphone service of anyone who chooses not to receive a Chinese coronavirus vaccination.

The U.S.-based Hilton hospitality company is developing a hotel built on the site of an Uyghur mosque recently demolished by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in China's western region of Xinjiang, Bitter Winter reported on Wednesday.

A Pakistani Muslim cleric confessed Monday to sexually assaulting his male student at an Islamic religious school, police holding the cleric told Pakistan's Dawn newspaper.

A non-profit organization supporting victims of Zimbabwe's 1983-1987 genocide accused unnamed members of Zimbabwe's socialist government of "stealing Gukurahundi [genocide] memorial plaques in [Zimbabwe's] Matabeleland South and Midlands provinces" last week, the online newspaper New Zimbabwe

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A North Korean cyber hacking group breached the security of a South Korean state-run nuclear research institute's computer network last month, a South Korean opposition lawmaker alleged Friday.